“There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.”

India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.

Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man’s wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

Billions are lost and billions are made by this speculation, and that’s what the stock exchanges are about. They are for greedy minds.

Sharing is the answer for humanity. When we share we recognize that God is our brother, and unless we have that trust created by sharing, then nothing can be done.

It’s an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.

Each one of us is Divine. We’ve come from a great Divine source. We are each of us a spark of the Divine. That spark could not demonstrate itself at the dense, physical level, so it reflects itself at the soul level.

The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.

Life is not about making money. It is about enhancing the quality of life for every single being so that they go from physical satisfaction to astral satisfaction to mental satisfaction to growing spiritual satisfaction, up and up and up, all the way. It’s all spiritual.

There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There’s a huge surplus of food per capita, but it’s locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa,

Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations.

Unless you have money today, you cannot live life according to your need.

We’ve poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

The members of humanity are really and truly souls. We’re all part of one great oversoul.

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.

Exist so loud that even if you die tonight, your deeds illuminate like stars.